“Trump Issues a Death Sentence on Our Children, Grandchildren and the Planet With His Payoff to the Fossil Fuel Industry” | My interview with Ian Masters of #BackgroundBriefing courtesy of @kpfk So. Cal public radio:
https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/bbriefing_2026_02_15c_michael-mann-1
"How the COP Climate Talks Are Sabotaged From Within" | My interview earlier today about the #COP30 climate summit with Ian Masters for #BackgroundBriefing:
https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/how-the-cop-climate-talks-are-sabotaged-from-within-3
You have a reflex response when a guest uses the word "genocide" (the one that Israel is doing, not the ones done to Jews, Armenians, Aborigines.... apparently). Francesca Albanese pointed out your ridiculous position really well on Radio National this morning.
Do not redefine #genocide.
I'll give you a hand: In the ninth ed. Macquarie, it is on page 649 between Genoa cake and Genoese. This word is not fuzzy. The actions of #Israel (and the planned actions of the #USA, announced by their President) are very clearly genocidal. As an organisation who's profession is words, you should be confidently using them in the manner the dictionary documents, then standing firmly behind the battlement of the definition.
(It is worth looking up the writings of the brilliant Raphael #Lemkin too - particularly the bit about preventing the 'rise of future Hitlers'. Maybe it is time for a Background Briefing about the word.)
@emptywheel visits Ian Masters #BackgroundBriefing to explain the still evident, ongoing and undisputed corrupt disinformation operations coordinated between Trump goons and the Kremlin
https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2024/03/14/background-briefing-march-14-2024/
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